Samuel Smiths Organic Lager

Brewed by Samuel Smith
Style: Pale Lager
Tadcaster, England

500 ml bottle. Sparkling golden and crystal clear. Tall fluffy off-white head that clings to the glass. Crisp floral and sharp malty aroma. Very refreshing initially with a distinct hop bitterness and light crisp malts. Body is fairly light. Medium lively carbonation. Hints of citrus, a little reminiscent of lime. Tastes very fresh. Found bottle in a coffee shop in Gilleleje, Denmark.

550 ml bottle at hotel in Copenhagen, June 2009, shared with Jone. Golden color, ok white head. Aroma is most of all fruity and floral hops. Flavor is fruity hops, sweetness, malt and fine mild bitterness. Moderate carbonation.

Bottle. Pours a clear golden body with a long lasting foamy white head. Soda like carbonation. Malty aroma is balanced by floral hops. Light body with hops bitterness in the beginning with sweet malt and hints of citrus balance the flavor. There is some fruitiness as well which is unusual for the style. Short, light bitter finish is balanced by some sweet malt. Very good for pale lager.

Not bad. Very drinkable and goes down easily. I got more from this than I expected. I would take this over Budweiser any day.

A nice clean lager. A little hoppy, but crisp, and clean on the finish, very easy to drink. Enjoyable for what it is.

Well, I didn’t expect this to taste like this.....realistically it’s just another corn flavoured lager, dammit. It’s a bit better than the norm but I’m still a bit dissapointed. Poured out a small rocky white crown, weak retension and the decent messy lacing. Nice solid gold colour and appears totally filtered, thank god. The aroma is pretty standard with obvious corn, mild sweet fruit and slight floral hops. The taste is pretty good. Now, I did let this warm considerably to try to coax some better flavour out of it and it worked. There is still a slight tartness and that seems to go hand in hand with blunt hops. Corn, sweetness...still just a lot of hops and a touch of spice. Clean and crisp with lots of biting carbonation. Attempts to finish with a malt note but that gets ran over by the hops. I like this warmer but it’s still nothing to go crazy over. If I’m gonna pay money for a lager, it’s gonna be the ’ole standard, Old Style Pilsner.

Ordinary flat with big dumb bubbles. Corny and bland. Expect better from this brewer. A little bit of sweetness the only flavour.

"This was a bit of a let down, it was ok but coming from Samuel Smith I was expecting better. Light copper body with a very noisy white cap. Very mild aroma that was slightly musty, apple, honey, some grass. Some skunk coming through in the flavor. This taste like most other Euro lagers but this is of slightly higher quality. Dark mildly bitter malts, apple, skunks, mild hop bite. Never want to drink this again but it was ok for the style I guess."